Category: Raspberry Pi
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Changed Dynamic Domain Provider
When I got notice of (another) price increase from Dyn.com, I knew it was time to change back to a free provider. After reviewing a few alternatives, I settled on No-IP.com. I settled on rklingler.ddns.net as the new domain for this site, and confirmed it was working. I then quickly (perhaps too quickly) terminated my…
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PressPi Hacked!
My WordPress installation on my Raspberry Pi was hacked several months ago, and I think I’m still trying to undo the file effects. On a semi-regular basis, although by no means based on anything obvious, the site breaks again. It always seems to be a new line of code (that I can’t decipher) in the…
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Best VNC Server for Raspberry Pi
In configuring my Google Calendar Raspberry Pi, I found that x11vnc was more useful than TightVNC, primarily because it allowed me to mirror my local desktop image to my computer. Install and Set Password sudo apt-get install x11vnc x11vnc -storepasswd
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A Fourth Raspberry Pi – Ad Blocking Throughout Home Network
Installed Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi Model B this weekend. Initially installed using DietPi (which looks awesome, and I intend to play with more soon), but then redid with the official Raspbian Jessie Lite image and the instructions on the Pi-Hole website. Because of U-Verse’s networking requirements (including the use of AT&T’s DNS servers), DNS…
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A Three Raspberry Pi Home
We are currently running three Raspberry Pi’s in our house. The first is a Pi 2, running in our garage, and acting as our general home server. It acts as a NAS device (running SAMBA) for backups and hosting video files, a torrent seed box (with remote access) and the server for this WordPress installation.…
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Raspberry Pi WordPress Crash
For the third or fourth time in the last two years (or so), my Raspberry Pi WordPress installation has crashed. Once I was able to fix relatively quickly, with little or no data loss. The others… not so much. I even had a full backup on my latest installation… I thought. Trying to use that…
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XBOX360 Wireless RetroPie Config
An XBOX360 Wireless Controller generates the following codes under Retroarch/Retropie: A = 0 B = 1 X = 2 Y = 3 LB = 4 RB = 5 LT = 6 RT = 7 Select = 8 Start = 9 XBox = 10 (I think) Left Joystick = 11 Right Joystick = 12 D-Pad =…
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Upgrade Command Line
Upgrades the command line interface commands on a Raspberry Pi to allow for quicker recall of previously entered commands, as well as greater leniency in identifying appropriate folder and file names for auto complete purposes. Requires re-login to enable. cd ~ sudo nano .inputrc “e[A”: history-search-backward “e[B”: history-search-forward set show-all-if-ambiguous on set completion-ignore-case on
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htop Installation
For a better visualization of running processes in Raspbian, I’ve been pleased with htop. To install: sudo apt-get install htop